Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The client had wanted either custody or to see his child every day . |
| 2 | I shifted my weight on to my other foot , looked around the landing and up the stairs , half-expecting to see my father leaning over the banister rail , or to see his shadow on the wall of the landing above , where he thought he could hide and listen to my phone calls without me knowing . |
| 3 | A testator would not set out to establish a trust , or to confirm his will in trust form , hoping that in details his intention would take precedence over his words : the civil law already coped with these problems , and the law of trusts was able to follow rather than lead . |
| 4 | Regression therapy does not play a role in all hypnotic treatment : if the patient wishes to give up smoking or to pass his driving test , for instance , then regression does not come into it . |
| 5 | If the committee resolves that a trustee who has used improper solicitation to obtain proxies or to procure his appointment as trustee , should nonetheless receive remuneration for acting as trustee , the court can override this resolution ( r 6.148(2) ) . |
| 6 | He declined to explain why or to give his name on the telephone . |
| 7 | Usually a person , like the plaintiff , who suffers no special damage from a breach of the law must ask the Attorney-General either to institute proceedings or to give his consent ( in a relator action ) to the plaintiff 's proceeding . |
| 8 | If he wants to get or to keep his employment , he has to sign the document which the employer puts before him and he may do so without fully appreciating what it may involve . |
| 9 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |
| 10 | Extraordinary embassies of an essentially ceremonial kind , so frequent in the past , involving the sending of a great aristocrat on a mission of congratulation or condolence or to represent his sovereign at a coronation ceremony , were now becoming rare . |
| 11 | He therefore refused to attend or to allow his wife to . |
| 12 | I have come to the conclusion that the law of libel is one and the same as to all plaintiffs ; and that , in every action of libel , whether the statement complained of is , or is not , a libel , depends on the same question — viz. , whether the jury are of opinion that what has been published with regard to the plaintiff would tend in the minds of people of ordinary sense to bring the plaintiff into contempt , hatred , or ridicule , or to injure his character . |
| 13 | ‘ … I have come to the conclusion that the law of libel is one and the same as to all plaintiffs ; and that , in every action of libel , whether the statement complained of is , or is not , a libel , depends on the same question — viz. , whether the jury are of opinion that what has been published with regard to the plaintiff would tend in the minds of people of ordinary sense to bring the plaintiff into contempt , hatred , or ridicule , or to injure his character . |
| 14 | . It is here very tentatively suggested that these may be cases in which , as the law now stands , the doctor has a discretion … either to refrain , at his patient 's request , from administering life-saving treatments or to ignore his patient 's wishes where compliance is likely to result in death . |
| 15 | It was argued that the King might intervene either to persuade Asquith to call an election or to refuse his assent to Home Rule until there had been one ; this was certainly within the theoretical Royal Prerogative , for the King had an undoubted right to advise his ministers and — by the Unionist argument at least — his power of veto had been necessarily restored by the removal of the powers of the Lords . |
| 16 | I 'm not ashamed to own my Lord or to defend his cause maintain the honour of his word , the glory of his cross ! |
| 17 | Similarly ( and this is a point we develop in later chapters ) ‘ there is little opportunity for the individual to obtain a conception of the whole or to survey his place in the total scheme ’ . |
| 18 | She never would say why but I felt almost sure she was doing it against him , either to spite him or to gain his attention . |
| 19 | He will actually be able to hear any noises which may occur — a telephone ringing or the traffic in the road outside — but those noises are unlikely to impinge on his consciousness or to interrupt his train of thought . |
| 20 | While still using the mirror he tried not to tense his neck muscles , nor to depress his larynx , nor to make the gasping sounds . |
| 21 | Rehearsing Kurt Weill 's Street Scene , I am in daily contact with a composer who was not embarrassed to entertain , nor to adapt his vision to the audience . |
| 22 | By now denying that the arm's-length principle applies to national museums Lord Armstrong makes me wonder how he interpreted his new role when he moved from being Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet Secretary to being her choice as Chairman of the V & A. If he saw himself as dutifully executing government policy over the V & A 's restructuring it is understandable that he did not subsequently feel constrained to resign , nor to dismiss his director , when it had become clear to the museum 's staff that the essence of the restructuring separation of research from ‘ object-management ’ had been abandoned as unworkable . |
| 23 | In an important sense , Hugh may almost be looked on as the instigator of the Investiture decree of 1078 , for he had gone to Rome for his episcopal consecration four years earlier in order to avoid contact with a secular ruler , who claimed the right both to nominate and to invest his nominee in his episcopal office . |
| 24 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 25 | Joyce has now learned to honour her father 's memory and to see his worth . |
| 26 | This right of enforcement is further enhanced by the fact that English insolvency law permits a chargee to remain outside the insolvency proceedings and to enforce his charge independently of such proceedings . |
| 27 | All his life he had relied on Luke and his father to support him in his bullying and to bolster his courage . |
| 28 | This causes him to fold down the top half of the newspaper , to see if I have set off , and to lose his place . |
| 29 | It therefore lacks the precise single end point of studies of survival after infarction but for the patient who survives an acute coronary attack questions such as whether he will be able to return to work and earn his living , to lead an active family life and to enjoy his leisure pursuits are of the greatest importance . |
| 30 | He stated his intentions to consolidate ties with South Korea 's traditional allies , particularly the USA and Japan , and to encourage his country to play a greater role in regional affairs . |